Around 382,000 displaced Libyans have returned their homes many years after the instability that Libya has witnessed due to civil war, according to October United Nations statistics.
In its monthly statistics, the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed that more than 193,000 displaced people are still suffering from the internal displacement.
It added that Libyan Coast Guard rescued 14,000 illegal immigrants in October while 99 dead bodies were found and 608 others were lost in the Mediterranean.
In the past two months, many Libyans have been forcibly displaced due to the clashes that erupted in the southern suburbs of Tripoli Aug. 26, 2018, between rival militias.
On Aug. 31, the Ministry of Health of the Government of National Accord (GNA) stated that 39 people had been killed and 119 wounded, the majority of whom were civilian.
Hence, 900 displaced civilians were hosted by Fallah 2 Tawergha settlement for displaced people.
around 1,900 others faced were forcibly evicted by militias from Triq Al Matar settlement, which is the largest internal displacement settlement in Tripoli, hosting 370 families originally from the city of Tawergha. They had been living in the settlement since 2011.
“Most of the more than 200,000 migrants and asylum seekers who reached Europe by sea in 2017 departed in boats from Libya,” Human Right Watch stated in 2017.
Libyan crisis
Since Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster in 2011, Libya has spiraled into civil war between its political parties competing for the power and divisions inside its army.
There have been two major factions on the ground since 2014; one led by Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, who now controls the eastern side of Libya in cooperation with the government of the House of Representatives (HoR), also known as the Tobruk government.
The other is led by Faiez Sarraj, head of the UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord of the General National Congress (GNC).
Meanwhile, the Islamic State (IS) and other terrorist groups have taken advantage of the conflict and established a foothold in the country, posing threats to Libya’s neighbors.
